Mathematics
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- A Powerful New 'QR Code' Untangles Math's Knottiest Knots | Quanta Magazine — New computable knot invariant both strong and fast visualized as hexagonal QR code
- Free Mathematics Books — Large curated directory of freely available mathematics textbooks and lecture notes
- How a Renaissance gambling dispute spawned probability theory — Pascal-Fermat correspondence on problem of points invented probability theory
- Interactive Linear Algebra — Free interactive linear algebra textbook from Georgia Tech
- Intuition Cheatsheet — BetterExplained reference cheatsheet for math intuition
- Linear algebra tutorial in four pages — Compact four-page linear algebra reference covering vectors through eigenvalues
- Math3ma — Graduate mathematics blog covering category theory and quantum ML connections
- New Knot Theory Discovery Overturns Long-Held Mathematical Assumption — Wendt's 1937 additivity conjecture for knot unknotting numbers disproven after 88 years
- New Proofs Probe Soap-Film Singularities | Quanta Magazine — Generic regularity of minimizing surfaces proved through dimension 11
- Science and Math News | Quanta Magazine — Quanta Magazine homepage for rigorous public science and math journalism
- The 4-Page Paper That Broke Mathematics | Quanta Magazine — Georg Cantor's 1874 paper proving some infinities are larger than others
- US teens say they have new proof for 2,000-year-old mathematical theorem — High schoolers' trigonometric proof challenges 2,000-year circular reasoning prohibition
- Which one result in mathematics has surprised you the most? — Community poll on most surprising mathematical results